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A Natural Obsession

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Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.
When delegates from 192 nations arrive in Copenhagen in December for the UN COP15 summit, they will confront a 181-page draft negotiation text, 2,000 bracketed passages still in [...]

Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?

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A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture–and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences
The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads. Although, historically, such [...]